chill-in comb.[Various parts of speech.]†1.chill-cold[either ‘as cold as chill’, like ice-cold, stone-cold; or, as sometimes found, chilled-cold, like burnt black]. a.adj., also chilled-cold, completely chilled, thoroughly cold.1565Golding Ovid's Met. v. (1593) 125 A chil-cold swet my sieged limmes opprest.1591Nashe Introd. Sidney's Astr. & Stella, The earth..snatcht thee too soone into her chilled colde armes.1594Marlowe Dido ii. i. 263 Dipped it in the old King's chill-cold blood.1601Dounfall Earl of Huntington ii. i. Hazl.Dodsley VIII. 126 Friendship, honesty, Are chill-cold, dead with cold.1611W. Barksted Hiren (1876) 74 Tendring their spotlesse vows, in child-cold dew, Of virgin teares.1612J. Davies Muse's Sacrif. 49 (D.) A chill-cold Bloud..Fleets through my veines.b.n. Chill coldness.1693Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 343 A chill-cold, algor.2.chill-cast(ing), -crystal, -depth(seequots.); chill-hardening(seequot.); chill-plough, a plough having a share ‘chilled’ on the under surface: see chilled 2; chill-room, a room for chilling or refrigerating meat, etc.1930Engineering 13 June 782/2 The tensile strength of the rolled material was considerably greater than that of the chill-cast material.1879Encycl.Brit. IX. 481/2 In ‘chill casting’ a portion of the surface of the whole or a part of the mould is made of cast iron, so that the metal brought in contact with it is rapidly cooled.1958Merriman Dict. Metallurgy 34/2 Chill cast, metal cast into metal moulds or chills. Chill castings, cast iron that has been set in metal moulds or castings that have been allowed to set in moulds in which metal pieces are placed in the walls of the mould to accelerate cooling.1940Chambers's Techn.Dict. 156/2 Chill crystals, small crystals formed by the rapid freezing of molten metal when it comes into contact with the surface of a cold metal mould.1930Engineering 9 May 611/2 With regard to depth of chill he was of opinion that a chill depth of rather more than 3/4 in. was desirable.1874Knight Dict.Mech., Chill-hardening, a mode of tempering steel-cutting instruments, by exposing the red-hot metal to a blast of cold air.1886York Herald 23 Aug. 3/6 There are several imitations of the original American chill plow in the market.1884Harper's Mag. July 298/1 The animal is hung up..and then left to cool in the chill-room..preparatory to shipping.Add:[2.]chill factorMeteorol., the perceived lowering of the air temperature caused by wind and other agencies; also, the effective temperature when this is taken into account; cf.wind-chill factors.v. wind n.1 32.1967Webster Add., *Chill factor.1973B. Wright Four Seasons North 76 Cold in combination with wind produces the ‘chill factor’, which, more crucial than either temperature or wind velocity, can also be measured.1977Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 17/1 The ‘chill factor’—the cold the body actually feels when wind conditions are taken into account—was minus 60 degrees in Chicago and about minus 30 in New York.1984A. Maclean San Andreas iii. 78 ‘Yes, Ferguson, I have heard of the chill factor.’‘For every knot of wind the temperature, as far as the skin is concerned, falls by one degree.’Add:[2.] b.chill-outadj.phr.slang[see *chill v. 4 a, b], designed to induce or enhance a relaxed mood, esp. in chill-out music; chill-out room, an area in a nightclub, usu. with air-conditioning and seating, where quiet or ambient music (*ambient n. 3 c) is played.1990Rave! 6 Mar. 30/4 The Cavern Club..plays Sunday night host to Spice, a regular 6.30pm–10.30pm ‘chill out’ session.1990Independent 23 May 31/2 All four rooms are open and the club is firing; the Jam MCs, the main DJs; Spice, ambient DJs, provide a chill-out room.1991Time Out 20 Nov. 57/3 A jazz/flamenco guitarist in the chill-out room and happy hour prices at the bar before midnight.1992Daily Tel. 12 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xv/5 The vogue for chill-out music in all its forms—the ambient house of the Orb, the laboratory experiments of Brian Eno, the quiet bits of Mike Oldfield's hypnotic bells—mean that it has never been more fashionable to sound as though you are heavily sedated.1992Face Dec. 45 The only RPG [sc. role-playing game] that you won't get too embarrassed buying is Toe Jam and Earl, an ideal chill-out kind of game about two alien rappers who strut the screen looking for the missing parts of their spaceship.1994Hypno i. 69/1 Dress for cities, hotels, and think tanks is casual, comfortable meta-chic chill-out wear.